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...population. In order to discourage roosting, city administrators in Tempe, Ariz., tried lathering their downtown trees with a concord grape coating that made the birds throw up. Other solutions are more violent. A few years ago, in an odd reversal of stereotypes, the University of Texas in Austin bought shotguns to scare off the grackles, while A&M, famed for its Corps of Cadets, opted for a recording of a shotgun blast echoing through the barracks' courtyards periodically, Gayle recalled...
Last week at the launch of Sony’s new Playstation 3 console, Michael Penkala of Connecticut was shot in the gut with a sawed-off shotgun for refusing to turn over his wallet to a pair of masked robbers who saw the line of waiting gamers as easy prey...
Traveling to Dublin, where she believes her renegade husband to have retreated after their shotgun wedding, Letty finds herself enmeshed in a world of subterfuge and shifting aliases. As Letty stumbles blindly through the dark warrens of Dublin’s crypts and other rebel depots, I was not able to deduce any sort of internal logic to her rambling experiences...
...time, the flick would be titled “Gone in 34 Seconds,” which was all the time senior running back Clifton Dawson needed to score the game’s opening touchdown.On the first play from scrimmage, Dawson broke through on a handoff from the shotgun and streaked 74 yards for a touchdown, giving Harvard (6-1, 3-1 Ivy) all the cushion it needed in a 28-0 blowout of the Big Green (1-6, 1-3 Ivy) before 2,028 rain-soaked fans in Hanover, N.H. On a day that first-place Princeton suffered...
...sushi restaurant. We are seated in a back room where large parties are sequestered from the intimate parties in the restaurant’s front. At a table next to mine, a young man wearing a tweed jacket arrives from the Porcellian; his friends exhort him to shotgun a Busch, and he eagerly does so, deftly managing to avoid spillage on his clothing. His performance is followed by a blonde’s chugging of her umpteenth beer. Five minutes later, her head lolling, she faintly murmurs, “Where did the wasabi go?” She tries...